St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31
A DISH OF SALAD.

torial last week under the caption
"Home Again." in which he warmly
thanks those of his friends who st0 cd
by him during his recent trouble. He
says he has rather been benefited than
injured by the malicious persecution, as
he calls it, of his enemies. He remar ks
that he will make it warm from time to
time for those who have prosecuted him.
The article closes with this touching
and manly paragraph:
"The cloud which has hung over me
for twelve years having been removed,
/ will resume my ancestral name, and
that under which l was married to the
wife who has so bravely, faithfully and
courageously stood by me in trouble"
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Ex-Gov. PIERCE has been endeavoring
to get solid with the ladies of YanktOn
and Bismarck by giving them fiattering
notices in the paper on which he is en-
ployed. But the ladies have not been
fiattered to the extent the gallant
PIERCE supposed they would be. 1t is
given out that the crater of an extinct
volcano wouldn't hold the letters that
have been sent to the head Office of
PIERCE's paper Indignantly inquiring
the name of the author of the ''slush."
The doughty ex-governor should con-
fine himself to poetry and quotation
marks.
The manager of the North Dakota
Farmer denies that there is any truth
whatever in the statement that eX-GOv.
PIERCE is or has been negotiating for
the purchase of that paper. The paper
is not for sale, nor is there any change
in its ownership or management con-
templated. The Farmer is prosperous
and doing good work for Dakota. A
weekly is too slow for PIERCE. 1t would
take gOod-sized daily to enable the
ex-governor to tell what he doesn't know
about farming.
Editor PIERCE seems to have entirely
lost his regard for responsibility and
truth since he retired from the govern
or's chair. Since he threw off the mask
of hypocrisy, which he so successfully
wore IN order to retain official place
under Democratic administration, he
has been guilty of some very disreputa-
BILE tricks. His latest effort is rather a
serious one, and stamps him either as
forger or a perjurer. He makes the
deliberate charge that the following
telegraphic correspondence passed be-
tween Gov. CHURCH and the GLOBE, to
which charge he has the brazen effront-
cry to affix his initials, G. A. P:
ST. PAUL, Dec IL. K. Church, Governor.
Bismarck, OAK: Why don't the GLOBE have
the election returns? The Pioneer Press has
been publishing them for three weeks as re-
ceiyed at Bismarck, while nothing has been
sent to US. Please send at once the full re-
turns to date. LEWIS P. BAKER.
BISMARCK, Dec LEWIS Baker, St Paul:
The returns are not yet complete, and can
not get anything to send. Don't see how the
Pioneer Press got them. L. K. CHURCH,
The GLOBE has never sent such a
telegram to Gov. Church, nor has it ever
received such one as is alleged. 1t
has never, through any telegram or
letter, asked Gov. CHURCH for election
returns, and PIERCE must make good
his charge or stand convicted of willful
falsehood or forgery. Editor PIERCE,
in his desperate effort to bolster up his
silly charge that the CHURCH admins
tration is editing" the GLOBE, is wear
ing out his conscience and getting into
deep water.
This pretty little bon mot occupies a
prominent place in recent number of
PIERCE's Supplement-:
The Aberdeen convention made one mis-
take, which we regret TO see committed. They
ask not for admission now, but virtually in
1889.
Nice bait that would be with which to
set the presidential mouse trap. There
are plenty of good men alive who re-
member Colorado. No, no, not this
year-some other year. Don't waste
space on such transparent sOphistry as
that, GILBERT.
So
The admission of Dakota as a whole
is not Democratic scheme. PRESTON
and RICE, the temporary and perma-
nent chairmen of the Aberdeen conven-
ton, are Republicans. How completely
this little fact took the wind out of the
sails of PIERCE, CAMPBELL and others
who were sitting astride the fence wait
ing to get pointer as to which way to
jump.
Editor PIERCE drew a remarkably
striking likeness of himself when he
used the terms "wire wOrker'' and